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“Lovers in Love”
The Friends of the Dublin Public Library, funded by a grant from the NH Humanities Council, will sponsor a Winter Book Discussion Series. “Lovers in Love” invites readers to laugh, groan, agonize, and weep over the plights and delights of lovers in settings that range from the cold, gloomy English moors to the lush Caribbean coast of South America.
Each book discussion will be held on a Saturday, beginning at 10:00 a.m., in the large room downstairs at the Library. This book series is open to all interested residents of the region. Books have been ordered from the NH State Library and will be available for pick-up at the Dublin Library beginning Saturday, January 9th. Library hours are: Monday through Thursday, 4:00 – 8:00 p.m. plus Wednesday morning 9:00 a.m. – Noon and Saturday 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. For more information, call Sally Carey at 563-8398.
The series will be led by Sandra LeBeau of Colby-Sawyer College, a specialist in Victorian history and literature; Maren Tirabassi, an ordained pastor, liturgical writer, and poet who has authored 13 books; and Laura Quinn of Granite State College, whose expertise includes social class issues and British literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.
February 6 – Northhanger Abbey by Jane Austen is set amid decrepit castles with locked rooms and mystery abounding. Catherine, a 17-year-old parson’s daughter, is a fan of Gothic thrillers. When her new love invites her to “meet the family” at Northhanger Abbey, she sees mystery and evil at every turn. What is real and what is a product of her fertile imagination?
February 20 – Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte is a tale of thwarted desire and heartbreak for Heathcliff and Cathy, two childhood playmates who have become adult soulmates. Amid the background of the wild Yorkshire moors, they believe their destiny is to love each other forever.
March 6 – Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons has been called “the funniest book ever written.” When orphaned 19-year-old Flora must move to her relatives’ farm, she finds herself living among cows named Feckless, Aimless, Pointless, and Graceless. Flora’s confident management of the book’s cast of eccentrics, both animal and human, is a pleasure to behold.
March 20 – The Passion by Jeanette Winterson spins the tale of Henri, cook to Napoleon, who falls for the wrong woman – Villanelle, whose web feet mark her as the daughter of a Venetian gondolier. Incarcerated on an island and surrounded by a bevy of madmen, Henri discovers passion “showed me the difference between inventing a lover and falling in love. The one is about you, the other about someone else.”
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